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Strategy changes for short-pay Jacks or Better By Jerry “Stickman” Stitch Gone are the golden days of video poker when you could readily find returns of 100+ percent. Those games are now virtually extinct. You can still find some full-pay Jacks or Better (9/6 – meaning 9-for-1 paid for a full house and 6-for-1 […]
How to analyze your risk playing video poker By Henry Tamburin There is an excellent software program that does accurate bankroll and risk-of-ruin (i.e., RoR) calculations for a wide variety of video poker games. The author of the program is “Dunbar,” a professional gambler who has a strong mathematical background and a Ph.D. in […]
How to figure out the perfect video poker game for you Considering all the varieties of video poker, do you really know which games are right for you? Do you get frustrated because you go through your bankroll too quickly, or do you ever get bored while playing? Since everybody has different bankrolls and […]
Wrong guesses can lead to disaster By John Grochowski Electronic casino games have always been subject to a little mythology. You can’t see what’s driving the slot reels or watch the video poker cards being shuffled and dealt the way you can watch a blackjack dealer turn up the cards or a roulette dealer […]
Dealt winning hands that you should toss By Henry Tamburin You might think that’s a strange topic for an article. I mean, come on, why would anyone want to throw away a dealt winning hand in video poker? Stay with me and I’ll explain. It’s true that the majority of times you should hold […]
Think you’re an ace at video poker? See if you know how to match pay tables with the correct strategy By John Grochowski My friend Bill is a video poker enthusiast—one who remembers how exciting it was when he first realized the difference that strategy makes. “My wife and I were gearing up for […]
“Identical” video poker machines might have very important differences By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Just because two video poker machines have the same name, and the pay tables look the same, does not necessarily mean they are exactly the same game. I was reminded of this recently when I visited a casino with a good […]
What exactly does “random” mean, anyway? By Jerry “Stickman” Stich In articles and books about video poker, we read about the odds of particular hands being made, and the house edge of various games. Discussions of odds or house edge are always predicated on a random game. For example, the odds of getting a […]
A max bet by mistake pays off big time in Triple Double Bonus bonanza By John Grochowski Like any other casino player, I slip up sometimes. One of the signs of fatigue that tells me it’s time for a rest is when I see a video poker card I should have held disappear from […]
By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Video poker myths have been around since the first machines were introduced. Some myths have been phased out by technology, such as the one about the temperature of your coins influencing whether you would win or lose. (Some folks really believed that putting in cold coins would improve your results, […]